Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Law of Libel and Slander in Civil and Criminal Cases as Administered in the Courts of the United States of America In the preparation of this work it has been the design of the writer to glean from the reports of the courts of all English-speaking countries the principal adjudications upon the law of defamation, and to arrange and classify them into one book, containing the entire law of libel and slander as administered in the courts of the United States of America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.